Welcome back, I\u2019m Marty with Warehouse and Operations as a Career. Today let\u2019s touch on Leadership, we\u2019ve discussed several different positions within the warehouse and transportation environments and of course what we\u2019re interested in, or our goal is to make money, have a long term job that we can turn into a Career. Here in a bit we\u2019ll be visiting with Jeremy, I can\u2019t wait to hear his advice and thoughts about today\u2019s topics and his experiences, I think you\u2019ll find them very interesting!
\nWe\u2019ve talked about how to break into Operations, through an entry level position and the importance of, or how to learn the tasks around us, take advantage of every opportunity that\u2019s presented to us, really participate in our start up meetings and be noticed by our Managers, meet & exceed productivity requirements and let them know what our goals are and we\u2019re ready for more responsibility. Our attendance and learned knowledge or on the job education will get us there, I honestly believe Operations can offer us that Career!
\nI\u2019ve been very fortunate in my career, I\u2019ve worked with and had the opportunity to promote many people into Lead Positions and Supervisor roles and on to Directors, several that went on to V.P. positions in Warehousing, Transportation and VP\u2019s of Operations. One takes on more responsibility with each new job, but as we\u2019ve discussed there\u2019s a direct correlation with more money and more Experience & responsibilities!
\nSeveral of us may be about ready to graduate into a Lead Position, we\u2019ve shown our management team that we\u2019re dependable, met every objective given to us and we understand our position and the positions connected to ours, what happens before we handle the product and where it goes after we\u2019ve completed our task. By now our Supervisor should know, we\u2019ve had several talks with them, that we want more responsibility and will apply ourselves and perform as we\u2019re directed.
\nMany times, or in my experiences, the Lead Position is an hourly position, usually comes with a bit of additional pay to accept a bit of responsibility regarding other employees. In both the Distribution and Production worlds it could be very much a working role. A few of the additional responsibilities may be communicating direction from Supervisors, maybe tasks like keeping Rosters and Schedules and overseeing projects for management, things like that. We won\u2019t have to usually worry about reporting or financials but we\u2019ll need to keep our Supervisor up to speed or in the loop with our teams progress and goals. This is another entry level position, an entry level position into Management.
\nThe Supervision role is the next step in Management, many times I feel its misunderstood or entered into a bit lightly on our part. Usually its our first experience into the Salary world. We\u2019ve always compared our hours worked with the money we made, at least in our minds and at a subconscious level anyway. By now we should really enjoy our tasks, I mean we enjoy the work we do, the industry we\u2019re in and this may be the next step in our Goal Path. Let\u2019s talk a bit about Supervision.
\nWe\u2019ve been working Hourly, meaning we\u2019re paid x number of dollars an hour, and there\u2019s an overtime component added to it if we work over x number of hours each day or week, depending where we work, and our weekly pay fluctuates weekly depending on how many hours we work each week. When we go salary, many times, our first thought is I make more money weekly than your offering! Let\u2019s look at our new position, I know several facilities that calculate that starting salary based on a dollar amount based on a 45 hour week. Now of course if we generally work 40 or 43 hours a week we consider that a raise, right? Of course, if we work 46 or 48 hours a week we think we lost money. But now we may be in a position to control how long we work, I mean we can create efficiencies to get the job done quicker or implement all thos...